Carsten Rupp
Carsten Rupp (* 1975 in Fulda ) is a German singer and conductor .
Life
Carsten Rupp completed a broad basic musical education, including a. at the Institute for Church Music in the Diocese of Fulda and the Fulda Music School.
From 1996 he first studied school music at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, majoring in piano, and completed this at the Darmstadt Academy of Music in the subjects of vocal pedagogy and conducting. During his studies, which he finished in 2005, he was also organist at the All Saints Church in Frankfurt .
As a singer in the ensembles of the Cologne Chamber Opera and the Hamburger Volkstheater, he sang roles such as Papageno, Baron Zeta (in The Merry Widow ) and Peter Besenbinder (in Hansel and Gretel ). He was a guest a. at the Saigon Opera, where he sang the baritone role in Orff's Carmina Burana . Since 2009 he has been teaching at the music school of the city of Fulda and is a juror at competitions.
He is the musical director of the Winfridia Fulda concert choir and works with various German orchestras. One focus is the conception and implementation of concerts with socially relevant topics and the goal of intercultural encounters. He also works in an advisory capacity in choir and cultural management and is a member of the musical advisory board of the VDKC Hessen / Saarland / Rhineland-Palatinate.
In 2018 the Federal Association of German Choir Associations awarded him the title of " Choir Director BDC".
Concert concepts (selection)
- Annelies : The central work is the oratorio Annelies by James Whitbourn based on the words of Anne Frank's diary . There are also the Hebrew folk song Erev shel shoshanim , each arranged in klezmer style, and Mendelssohn's Verleih uns Frieden . An exhibition on the Anne Frank House visualizes the scenes described in the music.
- Yunus Emre : A. Adnan Saygun's oratorio Yunus Emre is juxtaposed in this concept with the Ode to Joy and the Egmont Overture by Ludwig van Beethoven . The concert stands for the coexistence of cultures.
Discography
- Annelies : City Concert Choir Winfridia Fulda, 2014
- Fervor, tenderness, understanding : Winfridia Fulda Municipal Concert Choir, 2016
Web links
- Carsten Rupp website
- Biography on the homepage of the Fulda Concert Choir
- Carsten Rupp agency profile
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rupp, Carsten |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German singer and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fulda |